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Plant sample from Plummers Island

Cracking the DNA Code

On a small island near Washington, D.C., Smithsonian researchers have found a genetic code that could revolutionize botany
August 2009 | By Megan Gambino

Dr Carlo Croce in his lab

High Hopes for a New Kind of Gene

Scientists believe that microRNA may lead to breakthroughs in diagnosing and treating cancer
July 2009 | By Sylvia Pagán Westphal

Jaguar cubs

Evolution in Black and White

The alternative color forms of some animals are providing new insights into how animals adapt and evolve
February 10, 2009 | By Sean B. Carroll

A Boeing 707 disturbs a colony of sooty terns during takeoff

The Perils of Bird-Plane Collisions

When airlines want to investigate dangerous bird strikes against planes, they turn to the head of the Smithsonian’s Feather Identification Lab
January 16, 2009 | By Sarah Zielinski

Alisha Bacoccini is undergoing experimental gene therapy

Gene Therapy in a New Light

A husband-and-wife team's experimental genetic treatment for blindness is renewing hopes for a controversial field of medicine
January 2009 | By Jocelyn Kaiser

wolly mammoth

When Will There Be Herds of Mammoths?

With news that the woolly mammoth genome has been sequenced, our science blogger asks about resuscitating the extinct species
November 20, 2008 | By Smithsonian Magazine

Chapel of All Saints, San Luis, Colorado

The 'Secret Jews' of San Luis Valley

In Colorado, the gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer found mainly in Jewish women is discovered in Hispanic Catholics
October 2008 | By Jeff Wheelwright

How Breast Cancer Genes Work

Though we may talk of cancer as one disease, skin cancer has little in common with pancreatic cancer and breast cancer is something else entirely
October 2008 | By Sarah Zielinski

Irmgard, Jake and Jane at Plitt reunion

Clan-Do Spirit

A genealogical surprise led the author to ask: What does it take to be one of the family?
September 2008 | By Jake Halpern

Platypus

On the Evolutionary Gold Mine Down Under

What the platypus and other Australian species reveal about genetics
August 01, 2008 | By Dina Modianot-Fox

Personal Genome Project

These holidays, give the people who have everything the one thing they don't: a map of their own DNA
December 12, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

Beth Shapiro holding head of dodo bird

How to Make a Dodo

Biologist Beth Shapiro has figured out a recipe for success in the field of ancient DNA research
October 2007 | By Andrew Curry

The African American DNA Roots Project

Family Ties

African Americans use scientific advances to trace their roots
February 01, 2007 | By Whitney Dangerfield

Neanderthal Man

Svante Paabo has probed the DNA of Egyptian mummies and extinct animals. Now he hopes to learn more about what makes us tick by decoding the DNA of our evolutionary cousins.
October 2006 | By Steve Olson

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science.
June 2006 | By Amy Crawford

Medical Sleuth

To prosecutors, it was child abuse - an Amish baby covered in bruises, but Dr. D. Holmes Morton had other ideas
February 2006 | By Tom Shachtman

35 Who Made a Difference: James Watson

After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?
November 01, 2005 | By Smithsonian magazine

35 Who Made a Difference: Edward O. Wilson

Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
November 01, 2005 | By Robert Wright

Building A Better Banana

It is the world's No. 1 fruit, with millions of people dependent on it to stay alive. Now diseases threaten many varieties, prompting a search for new hybrids of the "smile of nature"
October 2005 | By Craig Canine

Twin studies have shown that shyness, willingness to take risks and propensity toward holding religious beliefs are genetically inherited to some degree, as is the risk of diseases such as osteoporosis, asthma and heart disease.

Twin Science

Researchers make an annual pilgrimage to Twinsburg, Ohio, to study inherited traits
November 2004 | By Mark Wheeler


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